Marie NDiaye

A nightmarish vision of otherness, privilege, and social amnesia, the latest from the world-renowned, Prix Goncourt-winning French novelist unveils a small community characterized by absurd kindness, labyrinthine bureaucracy, strange customs, missing persons, and ghostly apparitions.

That Time of Year

Marie Ndiaye

"After his wife and child disappear at the end of their vacation in a small French village, Herman sets out to find them, only to find that his urgent inquiry immediately recedes into the background and he wittingly and not, becomes one with a society defined by its strange traditions, ghostly apparitions, hospitality that verges on mania, and a nightmarish act of collective forgetting"--

Sara Mercedes

This book is strange and disorienting in a way that creates compelling storytelling. NDiaye explores detachment, belonging, and the unsaid horrors allowed to exist in our societies, things we overlook when passing through and realize only after it's too late. That Time of Year is a dreamlike horror story that reads like poetry. You have to pay attention to what is unsaid, and the meaning always seems greater than what can be put into words.

That Time of Year

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